A Note to V. M. Mikhailov with a Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.)[1]

Written:November 9, 1921Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

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ComradeMikhailov,

Pleasehave this sent round to the members of the Pout-bureau.

Mypersonal opinion is that the whole of V. Milyutin’s plan should berejectedas being worthless and absolutely unconsidered.

Ipropose it berejected.

[1]Thisnote was written on Chicherin’s letter to the Politbureau in which
he reported that the question of denationalising Soviet Russia’s foreign
trade was raised at the Baltic Economic Conference (held at Riga, from
October 28 to 31, 1921). V. P. Milyutin, the head of the
R. S.F. S. B. delegation at the conference, submitted a paper on this
question which was sent to the Politbureau. Milyutin’s plan boiled down to
abolishing the monopoly of foreign trade. On November 10 the Politbureau,
on Lenin’s motion, rejected Milyutin’s proposal (see alsoCollected
Works, Vol. 44, Fifth Russian Edition, pp. 427-30; present edition,Vol. 33, pp. 375-78 and pp. 455-59).